[847] in peace2
help Lori
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Thu Jun 21 14:44:55 2001
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:44:48 -0400
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
Hi Everyone,
You probably heard the news already: Lori Berenson has been
convicted in the civilian trial under anti-terrorism rules
that made it impossible to have due process. If you can
spare a moment, check out the details and ask your reps to
sign on to Rep. Carolyn Maloney's dear colleague letter to
Peru's President Paniagua.
http://www.freelori.org
http://www.freelori.org/familyupdates/01jun20.html#actnow
She is basically to serve another 15 years for sharing
an apartment building with members of the MRTA, who she
claims she did not know were members. She has experienced
double-jeoprady and has been denied the presumption on
innocence until proven guilty. Yes, she is just one
of many many political prisoners in the world (and Turkish
prisoners are in month 9 of a hunger strike), nevertheless,
she was a student here at MIT once and her case raises many
important issues about civil liberties that are just as much
under attack here as in Peru. It can't hurt to learn more
about her struggle and take a small stand against guilt
by unwitting association and guilt by media perception.
And even more so, once our elected officials stand up for
justice and fairness in far away Peru, it will be harder
for them to look the other way when we petition them to
stand up for justice and fairness here in the US.
In hope,
Aimee
PS to learn more about Turkish Prisoners hunger strike
to the death, contact former political prisoner in Turkey:
cemile_cakir1@excite.com
Solidarity Meeting with Turkish Political Prisoners on
Hunger Strike
Sunday, June 17, 2pm Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St 3rd floor (across from Copley
Square)
* Hear about the Hunger Strike that has gone on
since October 20, 2000
* 23 have died from the hunger strike, and 34 more
killed in Turkish Army Attack on the prisons
* Hear about the Resistance to the F-system
high-tech isolation prisons
* Hear about the connections to the fight against
the Prison Industrial Complex here at home
* Hear about U.S. sponsored political repression
from Turkey to Palestine
* Hear Cemile Cakir, former Turkish political
prisoner and hunger striker
* Hear Kurdish activists Hussein Aktas and Umut
Ozcan
* International Solidarity urgently needed - what we
can do
Sponsored by Justice for Turkish Political Prisoners
and International Action Center Boston
International Action Center Boston
31 Germania St (enter 284 Amory St - near Stonybrook
on the Orange Line)
617-522-6626
email: iacboston@iacboston.org
web: http://www.iacboston.org
